Reading about Maurizio Colucci's segusaLand brought back vivid memories from late 1999 of my prototyping work on a verb-centric desktop user experience dubbed Simpleton.

Here's the earliest conception of Simpleton. In addition to the verb-centric UI, the Simpleton prototype included two simple enhancements to the web browser address bar.

Over time, it was clear the verb-centric UI held the most promise,

And, here's an Simpleton a verb-centric interaction style that would appeal to more to command-line weenies,

There was even a business plan! [UserCreations Weblog]